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Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling

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The Power of Pleasure

I think people in general take to be pleasure is really our escaping displeasure and creating more of that displeasure via the way that we attempt to pursue pleasure if that makes sense. We are those those appetites are engineered enough quite often right you know the appetites for food or drink or other forms of consumption. I get so much pleasure out of the tiniest things, even just sitting in a chair and stopping my inner dialogue and falling into the sensations of my body can be immensely pleasurable. So it's really reoriented my conception of what real pleasure is and why wasn't I made aware of this earlier on? And then I think well no one's going to profit from that no

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